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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On 07/13/2012 11:34 AM, mriem wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to compile CGAL 4.02 which I downloaded from
> https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=52
>
> I want to use surface meshing algorithms which, I read somewhere, require
> the TAUCS lib.
>
> When I looked into the installation manual for CGAL at
> http://www.cgal.org/Manual/latest/doc_html/installation_manual/Chapter_installation_manual.html#Subsection_10.4
>
> it says "The usage of Eigen allows to remove lapack, blas and Taucs from the
> list of third party libraries required by some Cgal packages. Note that the
> version 3.1 (or greater) of Eigen is required."
>
> So I downloaded and installed EIGEN, then I stated to build cgal
>
>
> cmake (this part puzzles me since there is no mention to EIGEN or TAUCS)
> make
> make install
>
> It installs until the end, no problem.
>
> My problem is when I try to compile code from CGAL example that does surface
> reconstruction from point sets
Everything should be  set automatically in CGAL's example.
You simply have to provide to cmake the path to the Eigen directory
(cmake 
-DEIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR=/path/to/directory/containing/signature_of_eigen3_matrix_library 
.)

Could you provide the cmake output when you configured the demo?

Sebastien.